Zhihan Xu, young jazz guitarist and composer, is now living in German. He is chasing for his Master's degree in Jazz, guitar in Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, and Master's degree in jazz composer in Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg after he earned his Bachelor's degree in Jazz from Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. Xu has a great amount of jazz pieces, which are frequently performed in German and Beijing. He held in own Octet in East Coast Jazz Club in Beijing, 2016, and continued his tour in German in the same year. Xu's modern jazz music fusions various music styles and musical elements. Xu tries to convey his own style and understanding toward jazz by utilizing different features of musical instrument. His work fits in different band sizes.

Xu's own sextet "JM Jazz" won the first prize in the Music of Wayne Shorter contest in 2013. After two years, his Quintet won the best composer in "The Music of Charles Mingus" contest.

Xu has cooperated with famous musicians including Jia Xia, Yue Liu, Yongheng Wu, Yong Huang, Nathaniel Gao, Moreno Donadel, Ke Zhang, Peng Ji, Anton Mangold, Izumi Koga, Yuji Shi, Ming Yang, Zhitong Xu and so on.